R Is Still Hot – and Getting Hotter

When I wrote a white paper titled “R Is Hot” about four years ago, my goal was to introduce the R programming language to a larger audience of statistical analysts and data scientists. As it turned out, the timing couldn’t have been bet...

Free Course: Introduction to Revolution R...

Revolution R Enterprise allows R users to process, visualize, and model terabyte- class data sets at a fraction of the time of legacy products without requiring expensive or specialized hardware. This is an introductory course for accom...

Revolution R Enterprise: Faster Than SAS

In analytics, speed matters. How much? We asked the director of analytics from a leading U.S. marketing services provider, a Revolution Analytics customer. Her team supports more than 1,000 predictive models currently in production; her...

The Revolution Analytics perspective on Big Data

When it comes to Big Data, it’s “one thing to be able to query it, but it’s another thing to be able to actually ask that data meaningful questions,” according to Revolution Analytics head of marketing and community David Smith. The exe...

Business intelligence is about providing reporting and analysis solutions that show business users what happened and why. On the other hand, advanced analytics solutions deliver deeper insight into what might happen in the future, based upon high volumes of historical data and sophisticated modeling techniques. Traditionally, advanced analytics has been reserved for a highly technical audience in fields such as life sciences and academia. However, with the explosion in data in nearly every sector, advanced analytics is now becoming useful to more mainstream business users. This webinar introduces commercial open source business intelligence solutions from Jaspersoft, advanced analytics solutions with the popular open source project R and Revolution Analytics, and how those separate products mesh together in a demonstration by OpenBI, the expert commercial open source system integrator.